Patent CA-2177621-A1 (CA)
Title: Molecular reactor
Inventor: PATACEANO NICOLAS
IPC: F03B17/04
Filed: 1996-05-29
Abstract: The MOLECULAR REACTOR is disclosed as a device capable to develop useful power from EXPANSION (decompression) of liquids, PRE-COMPRESSED by GRAVITY. GRAVITY through a MOLECULAR REACTOR, compresses the liquid in the form of the WEIGHT of the liquids and indirectly in the form of elastic reaction known as the WATERHAMMER, producing elastic deformation of the liquid mass. By combining the potential energy of weight with that of elastic reaction to compression, the MOLECULAR REACTOR reduces the amount of liquid required in downfall but develops the same amount of POWER as the devices using only the weight of liquid in continuous flow. Ultimately, the aim of the MOLECULAR REACTOR is to develop POWER with such a small amount of liquid used in the downfall, that it can raise it back to the high starting level and still have left over useful POWER.          It has to be clearly understood that, a MOLECULAR REACTOR is NOT a PERPETU-UM MOBILE machine, because needs the continuous INPUT of GRAVITY to make the system work. It is the force of Gravity which is converted into useful power, with the liquid used as an intermediary, but the input of GRAVITY is extended to do more than give weight to the liquid used.          To reduce the liquid required in downfall, two leading principles, the author choose to name them Pataceano's Hydraulic Principles or MOLECULAR          REACTOR PRINCIPLES, are applied for the operation of the device: 1.A liquid confined in a RIGID CONTAINER when subjected to a COMPRESSION FORCE converts and STORES the COMPRESSION FORCE into elastic deformation of its own mass and can make RESTITUTION of the COMPRESSION FORCE by expansion (de-compression), either expelling from the container a volume equal to the elastic deformation or pushing outward any selected area of the container wall when and where the resistance to compression is less than the stored compression force.     2. The molecular reaction to a UNI-DIRECTIONAL COMPRESSION FORCE such as GRAVITY, of a liquid confined in a RIGID CONTAINER is VOLUMETRIC with the WALL of the rigid container acting as a COMPRESSION FORCE IN   ADDITION TO THE ORIGINAL UNI-DIRECTIONAL FORCE.          COROLLARY OF PRINCIPLES 1 AND 2.   THE ELASTIC DEFORMATION OF A LIQUID CONFINED IN A RIGID CONTAINER SUBJECTED TO A UNI-DIRECTIONAL COMPRESSION FORCE STORES AND MAKES RESTITUTION OF THE ENTIRE COMPRESSION FORCE: THAT OF THE ORIGINAL UNI-DIRECTIONAL COMPRESSION FORCE AND THE COMPRESSION FORCE PROVIDED BY THE WALL OF THE   RIGID CONTAINER.          The significance of the above Principles and Corollary can be better appreciated when the COMPRESSION FORCE applied to the liquid is GRAVITY and the MOLECULAR REACTOR is able to use the WEIGHT of the liquid and the effect of the phenomenon known as the WATERHAMMER for compression of the liquid.          The application of these principles makes possible the conversion of kinetic energy in a very small volume of elastic deformation. The MOLECULAR REACTOR releases the kinetic energy stored in the elastic deformation of compressed liquids to drive mechanical systems capable to use sudden bursts of power from expanding liquids. By using only, or almost only, the volume of elastic deformation of a liquid which stores potential kinetic energy, the MOLECULAR REACTOR improves many folds the relationship between volume of liquid loss and energy developed.          To benefit from the MOLECULAR REACTOR PRINCIPLES, the device generates POWER with INTERMITTENT REPEATED cycles of functions performed by the liquid.          Each cycle is started with the liquid being compressed in stationary condition, a complete departure from hydraulic devices using a continuous flow of liquid to generate power. The MOLECULAR REACTOR, to be effective, must release the potential kinetic energy stored in elastic deformation in conjunction with the pressure wave (a misnomer because actually it is an elastic deformation wave) through the liquid produced by sudden change of the compression force within the liquid in a very precise time frame.          Within the selected time frame, the MOLECULAR REACTOR can release the potential energy stored in elastic deformation of compression by its own weight PLUS the Waterhammer effect to EXPEL a part of its own mass, with the speed of pressure wave through its entire mass to decompress itself to regain its normal density for its temperature. The expelled liquid could be in the form of a jet directed at an hydraulic impulse type turbine, or to push a "barrier" constructed as the blade of a hydraulic reaction type turbine or the head of a piston incorporated in a Diesel type engine using the liquidexpansion instead of burning fuel.          The expelled liquid, to reduce compression, can transfer POWER to the out-side of the hydraulic system.          The molecular reaction to compression of a liquid can, also be used, as repeated fraction caused by compression/decompression, to generate heat in a FUELLESS BOILER, subject of an other patent. The MOLECULAR REACTOR operates only within very specific dimensional limits which have been discovered through several original analysis of hydraulic phenomena used and new computer programs developed by specialists in the field of Hydraulics and Mathematics, to be used for the design of the MOLECULAR REACTORS.          To refresh reader's memory on the Water Hammer phenomenon used in this invention, the author quotes in APPENDIX 'B' from "Applications of Fluid Mechanics" 7th Ed.by Streeter and Wylie, part of "Description of Water-hammer Phenomenon", with some pertinent observations.